Tag archive: F-Secure

Juniper Networks is raising eyebrows in the mobile industry this morning with a new report claiming the incidence of malware targeting Android devices has risen by 472 percent since July of this year. Presumably, that number is augmented by “hundreds” of malware samples the company uncovered in a series of third-party Russian app stores. Juniper describes the Russian malware cache as just the “tip of the iceberg,”… Read More

They’re calling it the Curse of Silence, an exploit for the Nokia N60 that can prevent the handset from sending or receiving text messages, and it’s been made public by F-Secure. Although the texting capabilities of the handset can be halted, all the phone’s other functions remain intact. The exploit was made public on Monday at the Chaos Communication Congress, according to InformationWeek. Those wanting to initiate an… Read More

It's an imprecise metric, but it shines an interesting light on our times. At the beginning of 2007, computer security firm F-Secure was tracking about 250,000 malware signatures; now, as the end of 2007 approaches, F-Secure estimates it will be tracking about 500,000 malware signatures when the year is done. The surprising increase in the sheer number of malware programs in the wild has to do with variants: malware creators are now… Read More

Data security firm F-Secure says the worm, which surfaced at the weekend and is known as “Sasser,” automatically spreads via the Internet to computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system, especially Windows 2000 and XP. “We'll be in the dark for quite a while as to how many computers have been affected,” said Mikko Hypponen, Anti-Virus Research Director at F-Secure. Read more at CNN.com.